Backhouse

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Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A smaller building behind a main building; often a privy.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A building behind the main building.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A building behind or back from the main or front building; hence, in country places, especially in New England, a privy.
  • n. Same as bakehouse.
  • Word Usage
    "Uncle Alphonse had a strap hanging on the inside of the door to the bathroom that he used on Mick and Caesare with liberal and gleeful intent, recalling, perhaps, the beat - ings his father had inflicted on him in the "backhouse," as the outhouse was called."
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